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Hetherington Returned to the Tour
WHEN—January 9
From the golf world
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Former LPGA Tour star Rachael Hetherington
is back playing competitive golf after a
four-year retirement.
The 42-year-old Australian, made her
tour return on January 9, at the ALPG Tour
Pro-am at Yamba, NSW. Understandably rusty,
Hetherington finished T23 with her 5-over
par round. She followed her first competitive
outing in years with an even par round at the
McLeod ALPG Pro-am, Qld to finish T8.
Hetherington, who recently became an
instructor at Sanctuary Cove, will compete
at the Australian Ladies Masters on the Gold
Coast from February 12-15 and the Women’s
Australian Open at Royal Melbourne from
February 19-22.
However the and mother-of-one, who is
married to former Test cricketer, Greg Ritchie,
has no thoughts of returning to the lucrative
US tour where she notched eight wins and
banked more than US$5 million in prizemoney.
‘I don’t want to play the LPGA—I would
miss family and clients too much,’ she said in a
statement.
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